Astronomers raised hopes that humanity might not be alone in the universe by announcing on Thursday they have detected the most promising hints yet of life on a distant planet. But given the age and ...

In the summer of 1950, four men sat down for lunch together at Los Alamos. It was, at the time, the center of American physics, and these men were respected contributors to their field. Among them was ...

As it turns out, the cute, stylish visuals are the most comforting part of their latest video, which tackles the looming, unsolved, and somewhat disturbing mystery of the Fermi paradox—or, why ...

In our quest to understand our place in the cosmos, two important concepts often emerge: the Fermi Paradox and the Drake Equation. The Fermi Paradox underscores a contradiction between the high ...

It seems unlikely that, in a universe so vast, we're the only intelligent life that exists. Although we can fashion several hypotheses that might explain our apparent solitude, the most popular ...

A new paper suggests that aliens haven’t gotten in touch with us because they may think Earth is boring. A very large array of radio telescopes near Socorro, New Mexico, United States. Source - ...

In 1950, while sitting down to lunch with colleagues at the Los Alamos Laboratory, famed physicist and nuclear scientist Enrico Fermi asked his famous question: "Where is everybody?" In short, Fermi ...

If Earth is so unremarkable in the grand scheme of things, where are all the aliens? A team of scientists from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has tackled the question by looking at the Great Filter ...

An enthusiastic scientist explains the Fermi Paradox, and the theories that surround it's interesting argument. But as we start to learn more about the theory, there is a gradual realization that all ...

Now that the James Webb Telescope is operational and churning out breathtaking images sure to give us a whole new perspective on our universe, the inevitable question of "are we alone in the universe?

"Where is everybody?": This question, about the lack of aliens in the vast universe, is called Fermi's paradox - Copyright NASA/AFP/File HO "Where is everybody ...